John Miedema

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Slow Reading

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Series

• Audio Books
• Building FuzzyCat
• Building OpenBook
• Building OpenBook 2.0
• I, Reader
• Information Ecology
• Interiority: A Library Phenomenon
• Kindle Shakedown
• Progressive Librarianship
• Voluntary Slow Reading: A Facet Analysis
• Voluntary Slow Reading: The Research

Other posts belonging to this series

• When You Link to a Book, Do You Link to Amazon, LibraryThing, WorldCat, or What?
• Four Big Libraries: I Pick OpenLibrary
• OpenBook Plugin: Requirements
• OpenBook Plugin: The Open Library API
• OpenBook Plugin: Coding in PHP
• OpenBook Plugin: Grabbing the Book Data
• OpenBook Plugin: Let There Be Cover Images!
• OpenBook Plugin: The Importance of Linking to Publisher Websites
• OpenBook Plugin: Graphic Design
• OpenBook Plugin: Hooking into WordPress
• OpenBook Plugin: Now Accepting Arguments, and Beta Testers
• OpenBook Beta Release!

Recent Bookmarks

• FAQs | Audrey Niffenegger
  As a book conservator I am also nervous about the digitization of books: will they be readable one hundred years from now? Or will thousands of books simply vanish as platforms and programs change? […]
• Libraries dealing with homeless try new approaches; San Francisco hires a social worker - latimes.com
  Every day, when the main library opens, John Banks is waiting to get inside. He finds a spot and stays until closing time. Then his wheelchair takes him back to the bus terminal where he spends his nights […]
• LibraryLaw Blog: Hold off a bit on buying that e-reader for library users
  The text-to-speech feature on the DX and 2d generation kindles does not include navigation […]
• The serfdom of crowds—By Jaron Lanier (Harper's Magazine)
  The central faith embedded in Web technologies whereby users not only consume information but widely generate it is the idea that the Internet as a whole is coming alive and turning into a superhuman creature. […]
• Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church by Todd Davis | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor
  Pray for the Hartzler family. Their youngest has left the church and no longer believes that Christ died for her sins. She buys clothes at the mall. Tongue pierced, nose as well. Her shirt shows her belly where a ring of gold sprouts. We pray she will remember that her Lord's side was pierced, that His crown held no gold, only the dried blood of His bro […]

John’s Veggie Recipes

• Whole Wheat Raisin Muffins